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Informationen zum Autor Michael S. Martin is Associate Professor of History at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and director of its Center for Louisiana Studies. He also manages the university's publishing concern and its Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism. Dr. Martin is also the managing editor of the Louisiana Historical Association's quarterly journal, Louisiana History. His publications include Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas: A Centennial History, 1902-2002 (2002), and Historic Lafayette (2007).Janet Allured is Professor of History at McNeese State University and coordinator of its Women's Studies program. The co-editor of Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times (2009), she also shared the authorship of Images of America: Lake Charles (2012). She is currently working on a history of the modern feminist movement in Louisiana. Klappentext Combining the best previously-published articles and essays on a variety of historical topics, Louisiana Legacies provides a compendium of well-written and accessible perspectives on the state's history. The volume covers material ranging from colonial era interactions between Native Americans and the first European settlers to the environmental history of the state's southern wetlands, whose ecology is internationally recognized for its stunning natural diversity as much as its extreme vulnerability to the pressures of climate change and human encroachment.The collection reflects the richness of today's historical purview, with tightly focused chapters on a multitude of fascinating subjects. They include analyses of Louisiana's tumultuous political history in the modern era, its troubled road towards racial equality, and the fiery debate over racial attitudes. The unique cultural qualities of Louisiana, including its Cajun cuisine and the inimitable jazz tradition of New Orleans, are also areas of focus. Zusammenfassung Showcasing the colorful, even raucous, political, social, and unique cultural qualities of Louisiana history, this new collection of essays features the finest and latest scholarship. Louisiana Legacies is an ideal documentary reader to supplement courses in Louisiana state history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editors' Preface 1PART ONE: LOUISIANA'S COLONIAL CONTEXT 3The Frontier Exchange Economy of the Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783by Daniel J. Usner 5The Moral Climate of French Colonial Louisiana, 1699-1763by Carl A. Brasseaux 25Oliver Pollock's Plantations: An Early Anglo Landowner on the Lower Mississippi, 1769-1824by Light T. Cummins 37PART TWO: WOMEN, RACE, AND CLASS IN EARLY LOUISIANA 49Desiring Total Tranquility--and Not Getting It: Conflict Involving Free Black Women in Spanish New Orleansby Kimberly Hanger 52A Female Planter from West Feliciana Parish: The Letters of Rachel O'Connorby Sara Brooks Sundberg 63The Murder of a "Lewd and Abandoned Woman": State of Louisiana v. Abraham Parkerby Judith Kelleher Schafer 78PART THREE: TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOUISIANA "CREOLE" 93Early New Orleans Society: A Reappraisalby Joseph G. Tregle, Jr. 95In My Father's House: Relationships and Identity in an Interracial New Orleans Creole Family, 1845-1875by Justin Nystrom 108PART FOUR: VIOLENT LOUISIANA 127"I Would Rather Be Among the Comanches": The Military Occupation of Southwest Louisiana, 1865by Michael G. Wade 129From the Barrel of a Gun: The Politics of Murder in Grant Parishby Joel M. Sipress 142Feuding Is Our Means of Societal Regulation: Elusive Stability in Southeastern Louisiana's Piney Woods, 1877-1910by Samuel Hyde, Jr. 154An Inhospitable Land: Anti-Italian Sentiment and Violence in Louisiana, 1891-1924by Alan G. Gauthreaux 164PART FIVE: PROGRESSIVES AND RACE 177When Plessy Met Fergusonby Keith Weldon Medley 180The Rest of the Story: Kate Gordon and the Opposition to the Nineteenth Amendment in the Southby Elna C. Green 188In Pursuit of Louisiana P...
